1. Making Connections
Between tEXTS

2. Natural Disasters
What is a natural disaster?

3. What emotions do natural disasters convey?
List some emotions

4. Comparing What does it mean to compare?
What does it mean to compare two texts?
Why is this important?
Example: Percy Jackson and the Olympians compared to the Ancient Greece in the textbook

5. Today you will be able to…
describe the emotions of the articles by making inferences based of the given text. Students will do this by analyzing the two articles to find key words that show emotion.
If you’re a reporter, why is this important? So academically why is this important? What if you are going to be a reporter??
As a writer, why is it important personally?

6. Today you will be able to…
Students will be able to identify key quotes from the article and poem that connect to one another. Students will do this by underlining the quotes in the articles.

7. Today you will be able to…
Students will be able to compare the two writing pieces using the, “Text/Connections” chart provided by Ms. Taggart in packets.

8. Earthquake poem Video Robert Frost Quote Above Poem in packet
What emotions come to mind when you are watching this video?
How do you think this person is feeling?
Why is this academically important for us to learn? Why is it important for you to know personally?

9. What did you learn today?